"I was born in Finnish Lapland in a city called Kemijärvi. Nature of Lapland, wild animals and human beings give me inspiration for my art.
I work spontaneously and intuitively. I usually paint “wet on wet” or “alla prima” with oil colours, or more like wiping the paint off from mdf-board that I use as canvas. Final result looks like a water color painting because of thin layers of paint. Names of my artworks are based on the poems of Aleksis Kivi - the national author of Finland . Kivi has been able to materialize the same strong feeling and ambient that I try to express in my paintings - something very Finnish and Lappish."